Carpet-tack tool



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' M. S. LANTZ.

CARPET TAGK TOOL.

No. 352,416. Patented Nov. 9, 1886.

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Ihvrrnn STATES MENNO S. LANTZ, OF CHESTNUT HILL, PENNSYLVANIA.

CARPET-TACK TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,416, dated November9, 1 886 Application filed December 5, 1885. Serial No. 184,805.

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MENNo S. LANTZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chestnut Hill, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carpet-TackTools and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the invention,which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful implement used in driving andwithdrawing a carpet-tack of any construction; and it consists informing a tack-lifter (having-the ordinary prongs or claws for lifting atack) with a notch upon one side, wherein a tack is held and released bya metallic spring, as I will proceed to describe. 7

The drawing represents a perspective view of the article.

A is the handle.

B is the body of the instrument, which terminates in a claw with theordinary curved and forked end, as at 0, but with a semicircularprojection, D, and an angular notch, E, upon one side.

H is a metallic spring, which is fastened into a hole in the shank at F,passed through a hole in the projection D,and extended beyond the notchE, thus leaving a triangular orifice at E. The shape of the orifice andthe flexibility of the spring permit the tack when slightly started intothe floor to be easily re.

leased.

The tack may be put into the orifice either before or after the carpetis pushed into and held in place by the prongs or claws. The tack isthen started, and the holder is withdrawn.

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must, besides, be held in the instrument by the finger and driven intothe floor before the carpet is put down. The carpet is then pressed overthe head of the tack and the tack turned to its place. In the patentsgranted to George Mosman, May 14, 1867, and to J. E. Sturdy, December 8,1868, the devices, objects, and results obtained are also essentiallydifferent from those sought in the patent which isthe subject of thispetition. those patents is capable of being used as a tacklifter.Mosmans is composed of four jaws, twoplate-j aws making thecarpet-stretcher and two spring-jaws holding and releasing the tack.Sturdys patent is composed of two platcjaws hinged together. The jawsare held and drawn together by a rubber band, which encircles them. Inboth of these patents the main device is the carpet-stret-cher, thespring-jaws in the one and the rubber band in the other, which renderthem useful as tack-holders, being auxiliary to\the carpet-stretchers.The spring-jaws operate so distinct from the office of thecarpet-stretcher as to. require in eii'ect the necessary mechanism fortwo instruments, save the haudlesto wit, one set of jaws for thecarpetstretcher and another set for the tack-holder. The rubber band inthe other patent performs no office to the carpet-stretcher and nodirect office to the tack-holder, but merely pulls the separated jawstogether. On the other hand, as a tack-holder my instrument does awaywith all jaws. and the simplespring, unlike the rubber band, performs aprimary office from the beginning to the end of all the operations asatack-holder. The spring could not work alone, as in Mosmans patent;neither is the spring a separate mechanism from the holder, as inSturdys patent.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As a new articleof manufacture, the carpet- -tack tool composed of a tack-lifter havingthe ordinary claws or prongs for withdrawing Neither of tacks, with anangular notch and semicircular projection upon one side, in combinationwith the metallic spring for holding tacks, substantially as and for thepurposes described.

MENNO S. LANTZ. YVitnesses;

H. GAMBLE, W. H. VAN ARSDALE.

